This means 3.3 percent of people who had a job in 2007, or one in every 30, went all of 2010 without earning a dollar.

In addition to the 5.2 million people who no longer have any work add roughly 4.5 million people who, due to population growth, would normally join the workforce in three years and you have close to 10 million workers who did not find even an hour of paid work in 2010.

President al-Assad stressed Syria's support to the unity of the Sudanese people and the territorial integrity of Sudan. President al-Assad also briefed the Sudanese president on the situation in Syria.

The Sudanese president stressed that the Syrian-Sudanese relations have maintained continuous progress in the interests of the two friendly peoples and countries, adding that Syria is being targeted by a foreign conspiracy due to its firm stances in support of Arab causes.

U.S. District Judge Kurt Engelhardt ruled Thursday that jurors didn't hear [>] sufficient evidence to convict Sgt. Kenneth Bowen of a charge he stomped on 40-year-old Ronald Madison after another officer shot and fatally wounded the mentally disabled man on a bridge after the 2005 storm.